“Let the punishment fit the crime.”
“They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. Not ones you spent your whole life in, wandering through its maze of shelves.”
“Punishment creates crime.”
“There is no right to punish. There is only the power to punish,' she wrote. 'A man is punished for his crime because the State is stronger than he; the great crime of War is not punished because beyond the individual there is mankind, and beyond mankind there is nothing at all.”
“it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime”
“Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.”